Ancient Egypt - Pharaohs, Pyramids, Temples

ancient Egypt

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Introduction & Top Questions
Introduction to ancient Egyptian civilization
- Life in ancient Egypt
- The king and ideology: administration, art, and writing
- Sources, calendars, and chronology
- The recovery and study of ancient Egypt
The Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods
- Predynastic Egypt
- The Early Dynastic period (c. 2900–c. 2544 bce)
  - The 1st dynasty (c. 2900–c. 2730 bce)
  - The 2nd dynasty (c. 2730–c. 2590 bce)
  - The 3rd dynasty (c. 2592–c. 2544 bce)
The Old Kingdom (c. 2543–c. 2120 bce) and the First Intermediate period (c. 2118–c. 1980 bce)
- The Old Kingdom
  - The 4th dynasty (c. 2543–c. 2436 bce)
  - The 5th dynasty (c. 2435–c. 2306 bce)
  - The 6th dynasty (c. 2305–c. 2118 bce)
  - The 7th and 8th dynasties (c. 2150–c. 2118 bce)
- The First Intermediate period
  - The 9th dynasty (c. 2118–c. 2080 bce)
  - The 10th (c. 2080–c. 1980 bce) and 11th (c. 2080–c. 1940 bce) dynasties
The Middle Kingdom (c. 1980–c. 1760 bce) and the Second Intermediate period (c. 1759–c. 1539 bce)
- The Middle Kingdom
  - The 12th dynasty (c. 1939–c. 1760 bce)
  - The 13th dynasty (c. 1759–c. 1630 bce) and 14th dynasty (c. 1759–c. 1530 bce)
- The Second Intermediate period
  - The 15th (c. 1630–c. 1530 bce) through 17th (c. 1630–c. 1540 bce) dynasties
  - The end of the Second Intermediate Period
The New Kingdom (c. 1539–c. 1077 bce)
- The 18th dynasty (c. 1539–c. 1292 bce)
  - Ahmose
  - Amenhotep I
  - Thutmose I and Thutmose II
  - Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
  - Amenhotep II
  - Thutmose IV
  - Foreign influences during the early 18th dynasty
  - Amenhotep III
  - Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten)
  - The aftermath of Amarna
  - Ay and Horemheb
- The Ramesside period (19th and 20th dynasties) (c. 1292–c. 1077 bce)
  - Ramses I and Seti I
  - Ramses II
  - Merneptah
  - Last years of the 19th dynasty
  - The early 20th dynasty: Setnakht and Ramses III
  - Ramses IV
  - The later Ramesside kings
Egypt from 1076 bce to the Macedonian invasion
- The Third Intermediate period (c. 1076–723 bce)
  - The 21st dynasty
  - Libyan rule: the 22nd and 23rd dynasties
  - The 24th and 25th dynasties
- The Late period (664–332 bce)
- Egypt under Achaemenid rule
  - The 27th dynasty
  - The 28th, 29th, and 30th dynasties
  - The second Persian period
Macedonian and Ptolemaic Egypt (332–30 bce)
- The Macedonian conquest
- The Ptolemaic dynasty
- The Ptolemies (305–145 bce)
- Dynastic strife and decline (145–30 bce)
- Government and conditions under the Ptolemies
  - Administration
  - Economy
  - Religion
  - Culture
Roman and Byzantine Egypt (30 bce– 642 ce)
- Egypt as a province of Rome
- Administration and economy under Rome
- Society, religion, and culture
- Egypt’s role in the Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine government of Egypt
- The advance of Christianity

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